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Zweig MS 161
- Record Id:
- 040-001945921
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001945746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0002be
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100139607564.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Zweig MS 161
- Title:
- Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin: Two poems 'An die Deutschen' and 'Die scheinheiligen Dichter'
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph drafts in Kurrentschrift. Signed at the foot of the recto (the corresponding signature on the verso is cut away).
Two of the twelve epigrammatic odes that Hölderlin prepared for publication in 1798.
Both of eight lines in two stanzas.
'An die Deutschen': a call to action for Germans who, like a child playing on a wooden horse, are more inclined to thoughts than deeds.
Begins: ‘Spottet ja nicht des Kinds, wenn es mit Peitsch’ und Sporn’
Ends: ‘Daß ich büße die Lästerung.’
The first version of a poem that Hölderlin later expanded. There is an erased pencil note in an unidentified hand at the head of the leaf. In line 1, the K of ‘Kinds’ and the e of ‘Peitsch’ overwrite an erroneous D and s respectively. The word ‘glüklich’ in line 2 is deleted.
'Die scheinheiligen Dichter': hypocritical poets must not speak of gods in whom they have no belief – the gods are manifest in Nature.
Begins: ‘Ihr kalten Heuchler, sprecht von den Göttern nicht!’
Ends: ‘Und ist ein großes Wort vonnöthen,’ with the missing final line ‘Mutter Natur so denkt man deiner.’ added in pencil in the margin by another hand.
Hölderlin expanded 'An die Deutschen' to fourteen stanzas circa 1800, and developed opening of the separate poem ‘Rousseau’ from folios 41 and following of this version (see Beissner 2.1 pp. 9-11 and 2.2 pp. 396-403).
For Zweig’s writings on Hölderlin and the other autograph manuscripts that he owned, see the description of Zweig MS 160
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stefan Zweig Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001945746
036-001945888
037-001945919
040-001945921 - Is part of:
- Zweig MS 1-218 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
Zweig MS 132-200 : Stefan Zweig Collection: Literary and historical manuscripts
Zweig MS 160-161 : STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vols. CLX, CLXI. Friedrich Hölderlin: manuscripts of poems; circa 1798-1800. Two volumes.
Zweig MS 161 : Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin: Two poems 'An die Deutschen' and 'Die scheinheiligen Dichter' - Hierarchy:
- 032-001945746[0002]/036-001945888[0024]/037-001945919[0002]/040-001945921
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Zweig MS 1-218
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100139607564.0x000001
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1793
- End Date:
- 1803
- Date Range:
- c 1798
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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160 x 120mm.
f. 1. The bottom edge is cut away with loss of one line of text on the verso.
Each poem occupies one side of the leaf, across the whole width with longer lines running on at the right hand edge of the line below.
Watermark: BRENN (ER & COMP IN )
BA (SEL)
Written in black ink on white laid paper with wire lines.
(See Add. MS 73174, f. 111 for the draft physical description prepared by Dr Friedenthal in 1947 for Beissner’s edition of the works. - Custodial History:
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Auctioned by Liepmannssohn, Berlin, 7 June 1886, lot 370 (See Johanna Autenrieth and Alfred Kelletat, Katalog der Hölderlin-Handschriften, (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1961), no. 442).
Purchased by Zweig from Karl Ernst Henrici of Berlin, 22 February 1926, auction 107, the sale of Gustav Könnecke’s collection, lot 276 (see record card in Add. MS 73168, f. 30).
- Publications:
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C. L. Neuffer (ed.), Taschenbuch fur Frauenzimmer von Bildung, auf das Jahr 1799. (Stuttgart, Steinkopf, 1799), p. 68 ‘An die Deutschen’.
—— Taschenbuch fur Frauenzimmer von Bildung, auf das Jahr 1800. p. 280 'Die scheinheiligen Dichter' (Both publications available online at http://www.textkritik.de/hoelderlin/hoelderlin_drucke.htm from this page click on year and link from title).
Franz Zinkernagel (ed.), Friedrich Hölderlin Gedichte, (Leipzig: Insel, 1922), 'Die scheinheiligen Dichter' p. 132, and ‘An die Deutschen’, two versions, pp. 185-187.
Friedrich Beissner (ed.), Hölderlin. Sämtliche Werke, (Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1946),text vol. 1.1 Gedichte bis 1800, pp. 256, 257, commentary vol. 1.2, pp. 570-572 and 2.2 pp. 1002-1003 (belated recognition of Zweig MS 161). The Stuttgarter Ausgabe.
Günter Mieth (ed.), Friedrich Hölderlin. Sämtliche Werke und Briefe, (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1970), vol. 1, p. 224, see also pp. 990-991.
D. E. Sattler (ed.), Friedrich Hölderlin. Sämtliche Werke, (Frankfurt am Main: Roter Stern, 1976-2008), Vol. 4. Oden I. Texts and reproductions pp. 78-81. Vol. 5. Oden II. Commentary pp. 525-538. The Frankfurter Ausgabe.
Variants:
Variants from the published texts are very minor. See the apparatus in Beissner 1.2, pp. 571, 572 and Sattler 5, pp.526, 538.
The strip removed from the manuscripts differs from the text added in the margin in having an exclamation mark after Natur and ‘gedenkt’ for ‘denkt’.
Bibliography:
Stefan Zweig, ‘Meine Autographen-Sammlung’, in Philobiblon (Vienna), 3. Jahrgang, Heft 7, Sept. 1930, pp. 279 ff. Reprinted in Matuschek pp. 128-132.
Wilhelm Frels, Deutsche Dichterhandschriften von 1400 bis 1900, (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1934), pp. 134-135. Bibliographical Publications Germanic Section Modern Language Association of America Vol. II.
Johanna Autenrieth and Alfred Kelletat, Katalog der Hölderlin-Handschriften, (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1961), no. 442.
Listed in the brochure for the Stefan Zweig Series of Concerts, Lectures and Exhibitions April - May 1987.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1986-1990, (London, British Library, 1993), Part I, p. 72.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)